Escambia County AlArchives Biographies.....Sowell, James August 26 1862 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JAMES SOWELL, son of Charles L. and Anne Sowell and general manager of the
Sowell & Foshee Co. mills, at Hammac, was born at Monroeville, Monroe county,
Ala., on the 26th day of August, 1862. Entering the common schools at an early
age, he attended the same until his twentieth year, when he entered an
institution of learning at Greenville, Ala., and later spent a year at the
Oxford, Ala., college, where he made substantial progress in the higher
branches. In the fall of 1883, he accepted the position of sawyer with the large
milling firm of C. L. Sowell & Co.; at Wallace, and on the 1st of January, 1886,
became foreman of the mill, in which capacity he continued until 1891. He
resigned his position as foreman in the latter year, and in May became manager
of the milling firm of Sowell, Foshee & Co., with which he still is identified,
and in which he now owns an eighth interest. Mr. Sowell and Miss Aloise,
daughter of Mrs. M. Arends, entered into the marriage relation, February 16,
1887, and they are now the parents of two children, Charles J. and Phillip M.,
aged four and two years, respectively. Mr. Sowell possesses superior executive
ability, and is thoroughly conversant with every detail of the timber business.
Personally he is highly regarded in his community, is pleasing in manners,
popular among his associates, and withal an elegant and intelligent gentleman.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1001-1002
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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